Julie's Boggle

After three months leave and one week’s unemployment, Tom re-joined the workforce on Monday.  That in itself is worth celebrating because the job market has been exceptionally dry lately and he hadn’t had many bites in those three months. :party:

However, it wasn’t without a pang of regret that I bade farewell to the comfortable routine that we had fallen into.

Even though Tom has been keeping himself fairly busy over his notice period, there was definitely an aspect of taking it easy. We tended to wake up that little bit later (and got a lie in after the alarm went off), Tom would make breakfast on days when Jon and I needed to get out early, we had family meals whenever we were all home, Jon slotted in as many daddy-interactions as he could, and – most particularly – I had a morning off once a week.

I’m really going to miss all that.

Admittedly, the strictures of the working day is something that the majority of families have to adjust their lives around.  So it’s probably unfair to complain about our days feeling that much longer, or our ability to get things done together being slashed back to “weekends only” – but we’ve definitely been been spoiled!  (And that’s with only one of us going back to work! )

Anyway, after that long break from working life, something to look forward to (now that we know we can afford it) is the overhaul of our bathroom.  Specifically to deal with the profusion of holes left after our little plumbing advantures, and more generally because we don’t think the current layout maximises the opportunities for having a spa-bath installed!